The First Ascent of Roraima. 
Again, ten minutes later, having reached and passed the 
top of the same hill, we suddenly faced another most 
glorious view of different character. Nearest and 
right opposite, across a narrow valley, rose the 
grand rocky mass of Waetipoo, its highest point, a 
somewhat conical mass surmounting sloping sides covered 
in places with turf, in places with forest. On the right, 
this central mass of Waetipoo passed down into a long 
wooded ridge, which on the extreme right rose once more 
to form the two most remarkable and pointed peaks of 
Macrobang ; on the left of Waetipoo, seen for once clear in 
the distance, appeared the tremendously magnificent 
south-eastern corner of cliff-walled Roraima, which was 
still a day's journey from us, and behind that again the 
equally rugged and magnificent end of Kookenaam. 
One more magnificent distant view of Roraima we 
had the next morning, just after rounding the south- 
eastern end of Waetipoo ; then we lost sight of it till 
the afternoon, when from a high ridge it appeared again 
close to us, while between us and it, far below us, lay the vil- 
lage of Tooroiking,* at the junction of the Ipeleema 
creek with the Arapoo river 
When we reached the village it was empty, and, 
though there were signs of recent occupation, we were 
persuaded by the assertions of our Arekoona guides, 
who had now reached the end of the world as known 
to them in that direction, that it really was a deserted 
village. Most of the houses were more or less dilapi- 
dated, and the large " church, " of the kind already 
* Marked in the ordinary maps of the country as Ipelemouta, i.e. the 
place (' oota') on the Ipeleema creek. It is no uncommon thing to find 
a village with two names after this fashion. 
